Talk:Wilderness hut

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An entry from Wilderness hut appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 8 June 2006.

"Autiotupa" is a term and not a name. Is there an English translation for the title, then? JIP | Talk 13:31, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Google found "wilderness cottage", "solitary cabin", "empty hut", "abandoned hut". It doesn't seem like any of them would refer to this same thing, though, and they're not used that much. –Mysid^(t) 13:58, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Found "wilderness hut", used by e.g. Metsähallitus on its Outdoors.fi site, and it seems so abundant I'll rename the article. Thanks for the suggestion. –Mysid^(t) 07:12, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Only in Finland?

"As such, the tradition is almost solely found in Finland, and to some extent in Sweden and Norway, too." I don't know how you define 'hut' exactly, but there are very similar wilderness cabins that operate under very similar rules in many European mountain ranges (eg Romania). Where does this claim come from?--Zambaccian 21:26, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

We also have essentially the exact same thing in New Zealand.--horus

And in France too. Nice little article - needs a re-write for grammar though --Gavinio 23:14, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Done. I tried not to change things too much, though. Incidentally, we have a similar system in the Highlands of Scotland.--Zhengfu 01:24, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

The claim comes from the corresponding article in the Finnish Wikipedia. I tried to search for similar articles here, but couldn't find any—that's why I translated the article as such. Now it seems like both versions should be changed a bit. –Mysid^(t) 05:44, 9 June 2006 (UTC)